As always, period rules the day in costume design, from Taika Waitiki's's "Jojo Rabbit" to Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Updated 1/29/20

Period costumes this season run the gamut from Hollywood counterculture, to mob fashion, to DC’s legendary comic book villain, to the reinvention of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved characters, to chic fashion statements in war-torn Nazi Germany.

In Greta Gerwig’s non-linear reinterpretation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran decided to distinguish the bohemian Jo March (Saorsie Ronan) from her sisters (Emma Watson’s Meg, Eliza Scanlen’s Beth, and Florence Pugh’s Amy) as both children and adults. Jo also makes a striking, androgynous figure. Jo switched to wearing male clothing, which suited her more comfortable, masculine nature. Gerwig and Durran even came up the radical idea of having Jo and her best friend, Laurie (Timothée Chalamet), share clothes. Much of the inspiration came from Winslow Homer paintings (particularly the hat from “High Tide”).

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